This term room 18 has been doing Information Reports on animals. I did wasps. When I was doing this I found lots of cool facts about wasps.
Here is my Information Report:
Do you know that there are more than 75,000 identified species of wasps? Hymenoptera is the scientific name for wasp. Wasps are Insects, the Queen lives for 1 year but all the others live for 12-22 days. They grow up to 3.8 cm. Wasps are a dull black or brown to a brilliant red, yellow or blue in colour. They are not nocturnal which means they are awake during the day time.
Wasp live in almost every country of the world. They make nests out of mud and some use wood. Wasps live in nests with 10,000 or more wasps. They really like warm spots, banks, attics and house roofs.
Wasps have two pairs of wings, antennas, smooth bodies, no hair, black head and they have a thorax. They also have 3 pairs of yellow legs. Most often they have a long slender connection between the abdomen and the thorax. Their bodies are dull black or brown to brilliant red, yellow or blue in colour. They grow up to 3.8 cm and they can fly.
Wasps eat other insects, fallen fruit, plants, spiders, caterpillars, ants, bees, flies and nestling birds and nectar.
Wasps do not collect pollen, unfortunately wasps can sting more than once. The wasp stings are rare because they only sting when they get annoyed at you, or when you hurt them. When other animals or people go too close they get attacked. Wasps will charge at anyone within 7 metres. Wasps have a really fast wing beat of 117-247 beats per second. They do not store food.
Wasps only have one baby in their lives. Wasps lay eggs and their baby is called a larva.
Wasp have 10 predators such as dragonflies, robber flies, hornets, centipedes, spiders, blackbirds, magpies, starlings, and humans. Humans are only predators when they sting us because we kill them and when people get wasp nests out of their houses.
Wasps can sting you when they are dead but only female can sting you. Step by step how to treat a wasp sting.
Step 1. Wash the wasp sting with soap and water to remove the venom.
Step 2. Put a cold pack on to stop as much pain and swelling as possible.
Step 3 Keep clean and dry. Wasp stings should take 2-3 days to go away.
I think people should treat wasps better because wasps will only sting when you annoy them, it’s like getting told off. When you see a wasp in your house it is probably because they are looking for a home.
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